Kitchen cabinet.



w. SELLERS.

KITCHIN CABINET.

APPLICATION FI LED NOV- 2. 1915.

PatentedSept. 12,1916.

jwuapto'c W. 5 e He r3 WILFRED SELLERS, OF'ELWOOD, INDIANA.

KITCHEN -C.ABI1 TET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Sept. as, 1916.

Application filed November 2, 1915. Serial No. 59,275.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILFRED SELLERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elwood, inthe county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kitchen-Cabinets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in.

the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention relates to kitchen-cabinets, and more particularly to the upper portion of the same and wherein is included the flour-bin or receptacle and the flexible closure or curtain for closing the compartment below the same.

The objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawing: Figurel is a front elevation of a kitchen-cabinet, embodying my invention, the flexible closure or ourtain being shown raised and exposing the lower or discharge-end of the flour-bin or receptacle, one side of the. cabinet being broken away to save space; and, Fig. 2 is avertical transverse sectional view of the cabinet, the flour-bin or receptacle being shown in side-elevation.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures of the drawing.

Referring to the drawings with more particularity, 1 designates the lower transverse bottom of the upper portion of the cabinet,

upwardly above which extend the usual sidewalls 2, connected at their upper ends by the cross-piece or top 8, and at their rear by the back-wall 4. At the front, the structure is provided with the usual facing, consisting, in this instance, of the vertical strip 10, by which and the usual vertical partition in rear thereof, the upper portion of the cabinet is subdivided vertically, whereby to form at one side the flour-bin compartment, and the upper and lower cross-strips 5 and 6, respectively, the latter subdividing the structure into upper and lower compa-rtments 8 and 7, respectively.

The flour-bin or receptacle 12, as is usua is formed of metal and of general rectangu located a transparent sight-panel 9. The frame may be made slightly larger than the body of the bin or receptacle and so as to extend beyond the four sides of the same to form extensions or beads 15, which, when the bin or receptacle is elevated, as shown in Fig. 2 by full lines, overlaps the front edge of the vertical side-wall 2, the lower edge of the cross-piece 5, and the upper edge of the cross-piece 6. The weight of the bin and its contents all being in rear of the frame 11, and the bin supported on the lower crosspiece 6, in a manner hereinafter explained,

it will be seen that the bin will be automatically supported in this position.

The front of the bin, between its ends, immediately below the frame 11, is inclined backward and downward, as at 16, and terminates in a curved and substantially horizontally disposed chamber or recess 18, the same occurring immediately back or in rear of the lower cross-piece 6 and extending some distance below the same. The opposite side-walls of the bin or receptacle are cut away to conform to the curvature of the front-wall thereof where it curves rearward, as described, to form the recess or chamber 16, the roof or upper side of the chamber resting on the cross-piece 6 and takingthe weight of the receptacle or bin and its contents from the front-wall thereof.

Below the curved recess or chamber in the receptacle or bin, the four walls of the latter may be converged in the usual manner to form the reduced funnel-shaped bottom 19, in which may be located the sifter 20.

Mounted within the lower compartment 7 and secured to the side-walls 2 of the structure are the opposite guides 21, preferably U-shaped in cross-section. The upper portions of these guides are similarly rearwardly disposed, as at 22, a short distance,

then downwardly and forwardly upon themselves, at 23, and finally, upwardly and rearwardly, as at 24, 25, the whole forming a somewhat elongated scroll in its disposition and substantially conforming to the recess in the front wall of the bin. In such guides are located the opposite sides or edges of any ordinary flexible curtain or closure 26, for the compartment 7, such curtain when raised occupying, for the most part, the scroll-like extensions of the guides 21. One end of the lar or box-like shape, the front wall, in the r curtain when thus elevated and rolled, as

present instance, being formed by the pres vill be apparent, occupies the curved recess ence of a rectangular frame 11, in which isor chamber heretofore described as being formed in the lower front portion of the flour-bin or receptacle, and it is by the provision of this recess or receptacle for receiving the curtain end that such is permissible in the structure, as otherwise, the bin would obstruct the passage of the curtain rearward as in the act of raising. The employment of a curtain instead of swinging doors for closing the lower compartment 7 is highly desirable, by the reason of the fact, among other things, that such compartment may be opened and closed to give access thereto without the necessity of removing from the table, which is not herein shown, but which is generally mounted to slide in and out below the bottom 1, various utensils and containers employed.

By mounting the bin 0n the cross-rail 6 of the cabinet, it will be seen that the latter serves as a fulcrum-support when the flourbin is swung outward to the position shown by dotted lines, Fig. 2, as is necessary, in the act of filling the bin with flour. To permit this outward movement of the bin, the up per edge or end. may be cut away toward the back wall thereof, or, in other words, inclined suflieiently to permit said upper edge or end of the bin to escape or clear the top of the cabinet. When thus swung outward, the bin at a point below the curved chamber thereof and at its rear, will abut against the back-wall of the cabinet, so that the latter serves to limit the outward movement. It will also be observed that the scrolLlike disposition given the guides for the flexible curtain or closure will serve toretain the said curtain or closure in its elevated or open position.

What is claimed is 1. The combination, in a kitchen-cabinet, comprising a vertically disposed bin-receiving compartment having an intermediate Copies of this patent may be obtained for cross-rail, and at each side of and below the latter having ways having their upper ends curved in substantial scroll-form, of a bin mounted movably in the compartment and having its front and side-walls shaped to form a chamber having a wall curved to sub stantially agree with the curvature of said ways, said bin being fulcrumed and sup ported on said cross-rail, and a flexible curtain or closure mounted to slide in said ways and at its upper end fold therein and within the curved wall of the bin.

2. The combination, in a kitchen-cabinet, comprising ,avertically disposed bin-receiving compartment, and opposite ways curved at their upper ends in substantial scrollform, of a bin supported in the compartment and having its front-wall bent to form a chamber coincident with the scroll-form of the ways, and a flexible curtain or closure mounted for movement in the ways and when elevated adapted at its upper end to occupy the scroll-ends thereof and be received within, the chamber of the bin.

3. The combination, in a kitchen-cabinet, comprising a vertically disposed bin, said bin being provided in its front wall with a recess, of opposite ways vertically disposed and located at opposite sides of the walls of said cabinet, a flexible curtain mounted for vertical movement in the ways, and vguides for said curtain inclosed by the recess of the bin, whereby the upper end of said curtain, when the latter is raised, becomes folded within said recess.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of'two witnesses.

VVILFRED SELLERS.

WVitnesses Enmisr DaNmLs, ISABELL MAGUIRE.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, I). C. 

